Zone is a digital agency specialising in delivery, technology and content. We are currently working with a multinational energy and services company that is about to embark on a major digital transformation programme. We are looking for experienced Senior Front-end Developers to join the team in Surrey and help us deliver one of the largest and most ambitious programmes in the energy sector in the UK.

6 months initial contract (with a view to extend, project will last at least 2 years )

Day rate up to £650pd

This is the ideal role for a talented Senior Front-end Developer with a strong technical skill set in front end technologies including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and one of the following frameworks Angular.js, React.js or Ember.js. The work will be delivered by multi-disciplinary teams using a fully agile approach. This is an exciting opportunity for candidates to be part of this transformation journey. As a senior member of the team, you will be expected to mentor and manage one or more junior members of the team.

What will you be doing?

Work as a senior front-end engineer on one of our core agile product teams, you will own the technical implementation of features for your product.

Ensure a high level of automated test coverage so we can iterate quickly and effectively.

Shape the evolution of your product by looking at customer feedback, analytics, trends and opportunities along with the rest of your product team.

Review code and technical designs from your peer developers.

Share development best practices and ideas.

Contribute to open source initiatives. We love open source!

Manage one or more front-end developers, ensuring that they are inspired and motivated to deliver the best work possible

Ensure that everyone you manage has regular appraisals, clear objectives and a career plan to work towards

Assess and identify challenges around project or department resourcing

Lead any recruitment of permanent or freelance staff as necessary

What you will have:

Strong grounding in JavaScript and HTML / CSS.

A good chunk of knowledge/experience around frameworks like Ember / React / Angular.

Our apps are all powered by Ember, so experience with Ember would be a bonus but not a must as long as you have a good grasp of the basics of modern single page application development with JavaScript. We’ll help you get up to speed.